You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.